Encouraging patients to help write and add notes to their personal medical charts -- a task typically handled only by medical professionals -- may help patients feel more involved with their own care ...

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Patients who have access to notes from their ambulatory care visits may be able to flag mistakes, increasing record accuracy and safety engagement. A new study published in the Journal of the American ...

Crafting the ideal patient progress note, at least judging from the literature, seems more easily achieved in theory than in execution. Since the late 2000s, when the electronic health record replaced ...

April 8, 2021 — The United States and Scandinavian countries are among the world leaders in implementing mandatory open notes, not the only world leaders, as an earlier version of this story suggested ...

More U.S. patients will soon have free, electronic access to the notes their doctors write about them under a new federal requirement for transparency. Many health systems are opening up records on ...

What does your doctor really think about your condition and health concerns? For more than a year now, patients have been able to access and read the observations doctors write down about them during ...

July 19, 2021 - The federal Open Notes Rule (the "Rule") implements a portion of the federal 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) related to "information blocking." It specifies that clinical notes are ...

In the health care industry, there is a common adage: If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. For a combination of legal, medical and billing reasons, doctors spend hours every day in front of ...

More U.S. patients will soon have free, electronic access to the notes their doctors write about them under a new federal requirement for transparency. Many health systems are opening up records ...

More U.S. patients will soon have free, electronic access to the notes their doctors write about them under a new federal requirement for transparency. Many health systems are opening up records ...